After the light faded, everyone appeared in a long and dark tomb passage, illuminated by flashlights held by several people.
"Huh? There is no light magician among you?" Professor Dou asked curiously with his flashlight.
"It's true that I'm an illusionist," Fei Huihua did not have the habit of exposing his shortcomings in front of outsiders, so he said to Kun Yi, "He is a fire magician."
"So that's it, that's quite inconvenient. Didn't you think about this when you formed a team?" Professor Dou didn't know about the magician's affairs, nor did he understand what universal elemental magic is, but he also had his own considerations. "So, how many times have you been tombs before?"
"We have never set up a tomb before," Ji Shuzhai replied honestly, "This is the first time we have taken on the task of the Scholars Association."
There is nothing to say about this. After all, their entrusted license has its own number and you can check it at any time if you want to.
"Never done it?" Professor Dou asked in surprise, "Then how did you take on this task? Isn't the above instructions for the commission?"
Fei Huihua was also surprised to hear Professor Dou say this: "The above requests us to have relevant experience."
Although the content of the commission does mention that this mission will be carried out in the ancient tomb and there is also a dangerous warning, the only requirement for the guard team is to fight.
"Is this true? I thought the efficiency of the broken mission release office was a great improvement this time, but it actually missed such important information." Professor Dou sighed and stretched out his hand to Yi Liuling, "Show me the letter of entrusting, I'll confirm who sent it."
He had just checked the license before and confirmed that Yi Liuling and others were not impostors, and did not read the instructions in detail. In fact, the information on the letter of appointment used to follow the entrustment is very large. In addition to the explanation of the task itself, the information on the entrusted parties and the task release office as intermediaries was also detailed.
Yi Liuling took out the entrustment letter from the ring and handed it over, and asked Ji Shuzhai to help Professor Dou hold the flashlight so that he could read in the light.
"Oh, oh, ah?" Professor Dou was stunned for a moment, and then looked at it carefully again, his face a little ugly.
Seeing that his expression was wrong, Fei Huihua asked quickly: "Is there something wrong with him?"
"Ah, no, no," Professor Dou shook his head, rolled up the commission and returned it to Yi Liuling. "The person who sent the task was Xiao Chen. He is the nephew of a great sage in our association. This is not the first time he made a mistake. I just didn't expect that he had not been fired."
"So that's it." Fei Huihua was a little surprised, but she didn't expect that the Scholars Association also had related households.
"Forget it, it's over," Professor Dou sighed, and for the first time he showed a somewhat guilty tone, "I think it's OK."
"Don't worry," Fei Huihua obviously wanted to keep her job very much, so she comforted skillfully, "No matter what danger happens, we will definitely find a way to protect you."
"It's not dangerous..." Professor Dou murmured for a few words, then touched the stone wall of the tomb passage with his hand, "Anyway, let's go forward first."
According to Professor Dou, since the Lalaiya mermaids have the habit of worshiping their ancestors, their tombs usually have three types of passages. One is the most spacious and safest main tomb passage, which leads to the storage place of the coffin, making it convenient for ceremonies to hold ceremonies.
In order to prevent outsiders from breaking into theft of burial objects, there will be a type of pseudo-tomb passage in the tomb that is very similar to the main tomb passage. This kind of passage is covered with trap magic, and even some wealthy families will put patrol monsters in it, and tomb robbers will almost go and go without returning.
Nowadays, the tomb passage where several people are located does not belong to the above two categories, but is a multi-functional tomb passage called the backend passage. This tomb passage is very close to the main tomb passage, and the whole body is made of materials with good magic conductivity. It can be closed every other section like bamboo joints by special means.
The backend channel is usually used for maintenance of the tomb itself, such as repair and detection of magic circles, feeding of monsters, and transportation of some materials. When the family to which the tomb is threatened, this special path that is well-connected and can become a safe house at any time is their emergency escape exit.
"So, we have to cut into the main tomb passage through here now?" Feihuihua asked.
"Yes," Professor Dou touched the wall of the tomb passage again. "From the material distribution, there will be a passage about a hundred meters ahead."
"Can you judge this?" Ji Shuzhai asked in surprise, "I am worthy of being a scholar from the Scholars Association."
"Ah, this is just practice, you can do it if you deal with these things all day long," Professor Dou said. "Because the backend channel is a segmented structure, the texture of the stone wall itself is very uneven, which can be seen from this."
As it turned out, Professor Dou was right. After walking about a hundred meters, they discovered a secret door embedded in the stone wall.
"I really didn't expect that the mechanism here would be useful after so long." Professor Dou took out the jade again and knocked on the secret door. The stone door rose up, revealing a hole of a black squid. "This should be the main tomb passage."
"Brother Ling, what are you thinking?" Gudu discovered that since Yi Liuling entered this ancient tomb, she has become extremely silent. Except for the previous letter of appointment, she was thinking about it at other times, and she was not even active as Ji Shuzhai.
Fei Huihua also cared about it when she heard this: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Ah, no, I just feel like I have forgotten something." Yi Liuling woke up from the state of sacred travel by them, and smiled and shook her head, "But I can't remember it after thinking for a long time. It may not be important."
"I guess so too. There is no need to waste time in trivial matters." Kunyi did not forget to brag, "After all, not everyone has such a strong memory like Xiaoma."
"That's awesome," said Nuomi, "skinned."
"Hey." Kunyi's eyes turned into dead fish eyes.
Although the rest of the people didn't understand, they felt it from the atmosphere and kept laughing silently.
"Since it's okay, let's go in?" Professor Dou hurriedly came out and brought back the topic.
"For safety reasons, you can go behind me." Ji Shuzhai reached out and stopped him handsomely, took out the door handle, opened the door panel, and stepped into the secret door first. He also told Yi Liuling, "If there is any pitfall, remember to pull me back."
But this time, the ancient tomb was very proud. The other end of the door was the spacious main tomb passage. After several people lit the tomb passage on the wall, the entire tomb passage became brighter.